Landscapes and modernity

These are some samples of a set of stunning landscape photographs out west by the photographer Jesse Chehak. The Morning News has an interview with Chehak, who is someone I didn't know about until coming across their slideshow. Go there for larger, more vibrant versions of the reduced-size images sampled below. I'm taken by the Primm, NV, one the most. Something about the modern clash of color and mountain and angles and fabrication amidst/against the scale of sky. There's also a lot to be said about the Rio Blanco one, with the dead deer in front of the fenceline, in the foreground against the background's only-barely-visible highway.

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Primm, Nevada, by Jesse Chehak

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This one is "Near Three Rivers, California"

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This one is by the Rio Blanco, in Colorado

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This one is in the direction of Sequoia National Park, California

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I don't think that's a deer, in the Colorado photo -- that looks like a pronghorn antelope to me.

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